GTZ Project Document No. 51 Report on Nahi Baseline Survey

Nahi Baseline Survey April- May 2001obvious that more outsiders are expected to come into the valley for timber unless somemeasures are taken to restrict or limit the rate of extraction or find alternativemanagement plans. At the time of the survey, already some trucks are transporting timberfrom the valley to Gaselo geog.3.6 Land priceLand is an important and essential resource for any kind of economic development totake place due to its scarcity and limited supply the value of land is always on the riseyear after year. Other factors like location, topography, fertility, nature of developmentfor which land is to be procured, accessibility, etc. also affect the value of land in anyregion or area. The improvement of accessibility by constructing access roads like Nahi’sfurther raises the value of land where higher prices are obtained for land with betteraccessibility and vice versa.Similarly it is assumed that land prices in the valley are expected to change as a result ofthe new approach road. The buying and selling of land is not common in the area, as suchnot many respondents are able to provide reliable information on the land prices.However, according to some of the respondents the prices for different land categoriesare expressed as; Nu. 10,000/- to 18,000/- for one langdo of wetland and Nu. 9000/- to10000/- for one langdo of dry land.36